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Monday, April 3, 2017

rollin' with it

Happy Monday, y'all! We went into the weekend with a TON of big plans - almost none of which ended up happening the way we had anticipated or wanted. Ain't that always the way?

the important part of this picture is charlie's shadow haha. those knees tell the real story of what's about to go down lol!

It's cool tho - we made do with what we had. Which, as it turned out, was inches upon inches of rain to close out last week and lead to a cancellation of our Saturday xc school plans, and Sunday hunter pace plans.

Luckily we could still have our normal Saturday jump lesson (just in the arena instead of out in the xc fields), and then were able to re-imagine our team hunter pace (and related tailgating) as an xc outing at nearby Tranquility.

turns out we can drop into the head of the lake over tiny stadium jumps too! #skilled #ready4rolex

And, as luck would have it, there's TONS of corresponding video. Including Charlie's first helmet cam video!! Just... ya know.... I gotta get around to actually editing and uploading and all that.

So in the meantime, here are two teaser pics that ought to give you a sense of how things stand in the jumping department currently. Hint: the big bay horse is GOIN FOR IT lol. And I'm basically just along for the ride.

Trust me when I say there's plenty more where the above came from too, since we're definitely at that point in Charlie's education where he's kinda grown a little over-enthusiastic... but is still not super coordinated or. um, graceful lol. Shenanigans ensue.

Hope you all had a nice weekend too - and were able to get out and about a little bit with the ponies! It feels like spring is finally arriving for real now, and everyone is super eager to take advantage!

Sorry your plans did not survive contact with the enemy, but yeah, it's spring and you'll have that. Sounds like you got some things done anyway even if they were not the things you originally had planned. I had the same problem with my weekend, ugh, but all was not lost over here either. :) Spring is like that... you make plans and then see how it goes.

You too Megan? OMG so swampy and so much water everywhere. All i kept thinking was THANK GOODNESS It was a CT and no cross country cause i would have had to scratch. There was some slippage at the one i was out (Not my horse thank goodness) :)

Spring is definitely here and I am loving it (except for so much mud but I'll take it over snow!) And enthusiastic Charlie is cute as hell--he's all "I DO DIS!" in his pics now, haha! Looking forward to seeing all the shenanigans!